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The origins of the southern middle class, 1800-1861 / Jonathan Daniel Wells

Wells, Jonathan Daniel,i1969- [Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xv, 321 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-298) and index

0-8078-7629-1 ; 978-0-8078-7629-9 ; 0-8078-2882-3

NW 7600

 

USA. Südstaaten  Mittelstand  Geschichte 1800-1861 

 

Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over slavery, and the coming of the Civil War.